Ex-IGP Adamu To Contest Nasarawa Governorship On SDP Platform After Dumping APC

Former Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu will contest the 2027 Nasarawa State governorship election on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, his campaign organisation has confirmed, following his resignation from the All Progressives Congress after losing the party’s governorship primary in May 2026.

The campaign’s director of media and strategic communications, Otaru Douglas, dismissed comments by the APC chairman in Nasarawa, Dr Aliyu Bello, who had questioned the platform on which the former police chief would contest.

Douglas said Adamu’s decision to leave the APC was a strategic move to a “credible and people-oriented platform” and that he remained firmly in the race.

“Adamu’s defection from the APC, following the charade called a primary election, was a strategic move to a credible and people-oriented platform, the Social Democratic Party (SDP),” Douglas said. “The IGP is contesting the 2027 governorship election and, by the grace of God and the will of the people of Nasarawa State, he will win convincingly”.

Adamu resigned from the APC on May 25, 2026, formally submitting his resignation letter at his Makama Ward in Lafia, the state capital.

In the letter, he accused the party leadership of compromising internal processes, saying the conduct of the governorship primary did not reflect the principles of fairness, transparency and internal democracy.

According to official results, Adamu polled 39,675 votes against Senator Ahmed Aliyu Wadada’s 195,285 votes, with Governor Abdullahi Sule having publicly backed Wadada ahead of the primary.

Speaking at the launch of an agricultural programme for farmers in the state’s western zone on August 13, Adamu said his administration would prioritise agriculture to tackle hunger and poverty if elected.

The programme, which covered farmers in Keffi, Karu, Kokona, Nasarawa and Toto LGAs, featured the distribution of 100 tricycles, 200 soil-tilling machines, 2,500 herbicides, 1,200 litres of organic fertiliser, 1,500 bags of NPK and urea, and 500 knapsack sprayers.

His campaign director general, Mr Abdulahi Yammani, had earlier pledged that the campaign would be strictly issue-based and peaceful, focusing on how to move Nasarawa State forward and maintain peace and stability.

However, the chairman of the SDP in Nasarawa State, Hon. Danlami Muhammed Musa, has insisted that Adamu is not yet a candidate of the party, describing him as an aspirant seeking substitution.

Musa, who declared himself the current governorship candidate, said the party’s primaries had been concluded and the names of candidates submitted to INEC.

The matter is further complicated by a leadership dispute within the state SDP, with another party official dismissing Musa’s claim to the chairmanship as fictitious.